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a card abutment or lift mounted thereon and adapted to be moved in vertical relation thereto whereby the vertical position of a card is determined. 3 3

Another object resides in providing a card abutment or lift which will always maintain a substantially common relation in respect to any card placed in the-card carrier or chute, and which has a surface sufliciently broad and long enough to support a card with certainty and accuracy.

Other objects will appear in the following description of the subject matter of this invention and its relation to recorders as well as in the claims.

In the drawings:

1 Fig.1 is a front elevation of the card carrier.

Fig. 2 is a sectional View of the card carrier taken on line 22of Fig.1 and showing its relation to cooperating mechanisms.

' Fig. 3 is a plan view of the card carrier with one side broken away in part to illustrate details of construction.

Fig. 4 is a sectional View on line 44 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is an end view of the carrier as seen from the left of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the card abut ment of the carrier.

The recorder with which the present improvement may be associated is of a well known type, and Patent No. 1,043,094, dated November 5, 1912, may be referred to for a description of the main features. Only so much of the construction of the recorder will be referred to herein as is necessary for a clear understanding of the invention.

The records are printed on stiff cards having horizontal divisions for the several days of the week and vertical columns for the in- Serial No. 75,673.

and-out records. This card, when a registration of time is to be made, is positioned, face to the rear, in a card carrier or chute, in the form of open framework. This open frame-work is composed of a flaring top 10, which is fastened by rivets 11 to channel members 12 and 13 whose channels are so positioned as to guide the vertical edges of a card. The lower ends of the channel members are maintained in spaced relation by a horizontal bar 14 having at each of its ends an upstanding extension 15 welded or adhesively secured to the front sides of channel members 12 and 13 at their lower ends. Bar 1-1 is disposed just in front of a rod 15 supported by the frame 16 of the recorder. Downwardly extending lips 17 (Fig. 5) from the rear flanges of each of the channel members 12 and 13 contact the rear of rod 15, and, together with the bar 14, serve to maintain in the carrier in a vertical position.

The frame-work of the carrier is supported by a bar 18 slidably mounted on rod 19 which is supported by brackets extending from the frame of the recorder. This bar has its ends 20, 21, bent at right angles, each of which has a journal hole through which rod 19 passes. Extending downwardly from the rear edge of bar 18 at its left end is a projection 22, and projection 23 extends from the right end 21 of the same bar. The former projection is welded to or otherwise adhesively secured to the front side of channel member 12 and the latter projection is likewise secured to the front side of channel member 13. A knob 24 is provided for manually shifting the carrier laterally if manual operation is desired.

The card supporting lift or card abutment is preferably made from one piece of material and it comprises a horizontally disposed plate 25 with its ends 26, 27 turned down to form journals for a roller 28, the purpose of which will be hereinafter described. This plate is of suflicient width to maintain a card thereon even under extreme conditions when the card is flexed by careless handling by an employee. The forward edge 29 is turned down so as to aid in maintaining plate 25 in a fiat plane. The ends 30 and 31 have ex tending therefrom fingers 32 and 33 respecherein illustrated.

. lower end a zontal transverse conditions the hammer is held I contact with any' m of the'card carrier or tively each of gles thereto. holes in end and in lip'34 on finger 32, and is secured by solder or otherwise thereto. A sleeve 36 passes through holes in end 31 and in lip 34on finger 33, and is secured in like manner thereto. Sleeves 35 and 36 have such a bore as to fit so as to be easily slid upon vertial r s 37 an 38 r p t vely- 7 c The lower ends of rods 37 and 38 are secured to a cross-bar 39, which, after the sleeve 35 is mounted upon rod 37 and sleeve 36 is mounted upon rod 38 and the upper ends of rods 37 and 38 are respectively inserted in which has a lip 34 at right anrecesses 40 and 41 in the top member 10, is

secured to bar 14 by screws 42 or the like.

It is evident that the card'and carrier or chute may be moved to the left or'to the right upon rod 19 and that the card and card lift or'a'butment may be raised or lowered in respect to the frame-work of the carrier as guided by rods 37 and 38.

The vertical positions of the card are preferably automatically selected by the recorder itself by the control of an arm 43 pivoted on shaft 44 and having at its forward end a bearing surface 45. Because of the length of roller 28 of the card abutment, it always rests upon bearingsurtace 45 which has no lateral movement. A projection 46 extends laterally from arm 43 and it bears upon the periphery of cam 47. This cam is mounted on shaft 48 which is arranged to be driven stepby-step so that at the proper instant the abutment 25 will be raised far enough to cause a new day line on a card to stanl opposite the impression point. V

The printing wheels are indicated 'dagrammatically at 49, Fig. 2', and, as in all machines of this'class, are clock driven or controlled by any known means which are not These printing wheels are arranged behind the-card chute near. the top thereofland between the wheels and the card chute is ribbon 50." The printing hammer 51 i s in front ofthe card chute and when allowed to snap rearwardly forces the card and the, ribbon againstthe type-wheels 49, thereby printing a time record on the card in a space thereon determined by its vertical and lateraladjustment with respect to the impression point.

The printing hammer is mounted to swing in a vertical plane by being pivoted at its forked arm 52 fixed to a horishaft 53. Under normal away from any card that might be therein by a spring 54. Loose on 'sha ft 5 3 is manual operating handle or lever 55, which, as a result of a downward actuation, will cause the hammer to be drawn forward and then released so as to snap backwards against the type wheels.

I claim:

A sleeve 35 passes through 1. In a machine of the class described, the combination comprising a horizontally displaceable card carrier, and a card abutment slidably mounted on said card carrier, said card abutment having a length substantially coextensive'with the length of said card-carrier.

2. In a machine of the class described, the combination comprising a chute for receiving a card said chute being movable in a horizontal direction, a card abu'tment car ried by said chute and horizontally movable therewith, means for guiding said card abutment in vertical path and relative to said chute, anti-friction means on said card abutment, and means contacting said anti-friction means whereby said card-abutment may be moved relative to said chute whatever the horizontal position of said chute and said card abutment may happen to be. i

3. In a machine of the class described, the combination comprising a chute for receiving a card, a card abutment having a card bearing surface of substantial width and of a length approximately the width of a card, means for guiding said card abutment in a vertical path, means for guiding said chute in a lateral path, and means for controlling the combination comprising, a card carr'ier adapted to be supported soas to allow hori- Zontal displacementthereof, an abutment for supporting a card in said card-carrier, means associated with said card-carrier and said abutment for horizontally positioning said abutment upon a horizontal displacement of said card-carrier, and means to change the vertical relative 'position'of said abutment and said card-carrier.

6. In a machine of the class described, the

combination comprising,'a frame-work comprising a top'member having a slot therein, a pair of channel members for guiding the edges of a card, a bar connecting the lower ends of said channel members, a pair of rods I extending upward from said bar'and'engaging holes in said top member, said bar being removably secured to said channel members,

and an abutment for supporting a card in said card-carrier, said abutment having" thevertical position of said card abutment means for engaging said rods whereby said abutment may be guided in its travels intermediate said top member and said bar.

7. In a machine of the class described, 5 the combination comprising, a cardcarrier adapted to be supported so as to allow lateral displacement thereof, said cardcarrier comprising a slotted top member, a pair of channel members connected therewith, means ex- 1U tending from said channel members for supporting said card-carrier, a rod secured to the lower portions of said channel members, a pair of parallel rods disposed intermediate said top member and said bar, a card-abutment slidingly mounted upon said rods, and

means to raise and lower said card-abutment in respect to said card-carrier.

In testimony whereof I hereto afiix my signature.

CLINTON E. LARRABEE. 

